Maryland woman now says she lost Mega Millions ticket

Mirlande Wilson, center, who has claimed that she has the Maryland Mega Millions ticket, appears at a news conference with attorney Edward Smith Jr., left, Wednesday, April 4, 2012, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Sarah Brumfield)

A Maryland woman who claimed she was one of the winners of the $656 million Mega Millions lottery told NBC News on Thursday that she has lost the ticket.

Mirlande Wilson, 37, claims she bought the winning ticket at a 7-Eleven in Baltimore, but so far none of the three winners — the two others were in Illinois and Kansas — has actually come forward to claim the money.

Asked by NBC Washington’s Shomari Stone whether she was going to ask for her share, Wilson said, “if I find it [the ticket].”

Stone then asked Wilson if she had lost the ticket and she replied, “I misplaced it.”

She was reportedly responsible for a McDonald’s employee pool of Mega Millions tickets, but has said that the winning ticket wasn’t part of the pool.